National Affairs: Fighting Judge

One August day in 1918, Captain Robert Porter Patterson, 306th Infantry,
U.S.A., led a patrol into the German lines in France, surprised and
wiped out an enemy outpost, killed several men in a second one, and
then, singlehanded, covered his patrol's retreat. That day won him the
Distinguished Service Cross. Before his death at 60, in the Elizabeth
air crash last week (see above), the nation was to pay him many another
tribute. For Bob Patterson never stopped fighting.

Call to the Jungles. The son of a Glens Falls, N.Y. lawyer, Patterson
was educated at Union College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard...